Yinnar beats the drum for Fiddlehead

Beats are echoing from the Yinnar Primary School basketball stadium as a group of 50 drummers and 50 dancers, prepare for their gig at the Fiddlehead Music Festival. The students will be performing a piece called Dance With Me alongside other festival acts such as The Stillsons, Brody Young, Acoustic Kitchen and The Strzelecki Stringbusters.

The Fiddlehead Festival was created in the spirit of resilience following bushfires and the students of Yinnar are showing theirs as they battle the 37 degree heat of the school's basketball stadium, to practise for the event.

Their drumming instructor, Steve Schulz, is impressed by the students stamina.

"They always respond well. Drumming is really strong in the Valley, they pick it up straight away," he says.

Grade five student Nixon Hall says he is looking forward to playing at the festival.

"It's really fun to play something different, I haven't really played drums before," he says.

Outside under the schoolyard trees another group of students are practising the 'crackarena' a dance taken from the popular macarena, taught by Nicole Brindley.

"It one of those things that is very easy to pick up on, there is a lot of repetition and simple, common moves that people tend to pick up really quickly," she says.

ABC Gippsland is partnering with the 2013 Fiddlehead Festival, for more details visit the ABC Big Diary.